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From Dürer’s The Four Witches to Paula Rego’s Straw Burning, 80 of the most terrifying images imaginable are included in a new Edinburgh festival exhibition, which is disconcerting not least because it demonstrates how women have been demonised in Western art for 600 years.

Should visitors find the display unsettling, that is the intention of Deanna Petherbridge, the artist who curated Witches and Wicked Bodies. “We don’t say much about misogyny in the exhibition [text],” Ms Petherbridge said. “It is so obvious, so powerful. This looks at a subject that has never been represented in Britain. Why? Because this is